The patient attempts to Explain PTSD with Time Travel Theory

Staci R. Schoenfeld

2. Label the first dot childhood (or substitute a time in your life thathaunts you).

3. Label the second dot with your name and location. Include thecurrent day, date, and time.

4. Draw a line between the two dots. Call this linear time. It travelsfrom point A (the past) to point B (which is always right now).

5. Call this good. Call it the past staying where it belongs.

6. Fold the paper in half so the two dots line up exactly.

7. Take a pencil or other pointed object and punch a hole from pointA through to point B. See how the distance between the dots nolonger exists?

8. Call this what you have been trying to avoid. Call this thetriggering event.

9. Leave the newly created portal open. Picture a tunnel connectingthe once vast distance between the points in this folded space. Call it awormhole. Call it an Einstein-Rosen Bridge.

10. Call it being unable to tell the difference between past andpresent.

11. Call it being in your living room in 2013 and feeling the brushyour mother beat you with in 1975 strike your head over and over.Call it smelling your father's aftershave everywhere. Call it feelinghis fingers stroke your cheek just as he did each night he got intobed with you when you were ten.